SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE

THE UNIQUE INNOVATION FOR PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENT

Optimizing muscle hypertrophy from resistance exercise requires eccentric muscle actions. Up-to-date, there is no other muscle exercise equipment than nHANCE™ – Driven by YoYo Technology™ that can offer an optimal resistance curve in eccentric musle actions, without any friction or sticking points. nHANCE™ exercise equipment utilize the moment of inertia produced by flywheel(s), instead of weights stacks, magnets, electricity or any other conventional solution. All nHANCE™ equipment are driven by the YoYo Technology™ – the original and patented innovation that has been validated by scientific studies in cooperation with renowned athletes and sports teams, coaches, physiotherapists and international research laboratories across the globe.

SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATED LIKE NO OTHER TRAINING GEAR

Compared to nHANCE™ few, if any single piece of resistance exercise equipment has been so thoroughly scientifically validated by means of physiology and efficacy to build muscle and strength.

Over the last 20 years, and following the pioneer paper describing this flywheel inertial technology, a myriad of research publications have appeared in support of this resistance exercise method. Thus, nHANCE™ in-house R&D is supported by extensive research performed at academic entities around the world and published in prominent peer review journals.

GREATER MUSCLE USE

Functional MRI was employed to study muscle use during nHANCE™ Leg Press exercise in strength athletes. In muscle cross-section images obtained soon after exercise, the extent of muscle use is inferred by increasingly lighter shading. Below are images at rest and immediately after five sets of ten reps of the Barbell Squat and the nHANCE™ Leg Press (Berg et al., 1993).

Resting image of the right thigh taken before exercise.

Muscle use in the Barbell Squat. Notice the quadriceps and adductor muscles, which appear lighter in this cross section than in the resting image.

Studies conducting the nHANCE™ standard training formula of four sets of seven repetitions reported sensational results.
For example, men and women who trained nHANCE™ Knee Extension every third day, showed a rate of quadriceps hypertrophy never reported before. Perhaps even more stunning, subjects walking on crutches for five weeks yet took part in this training, showed a 9% increase in quadriceps muscle size (Tesch et al., 2004a; Tesch et al., 2004b; Norrbrand et al., 2008).

IMPROVING BODILY PERFORMANCE OF THE OLD

Resistance training for the elderly has become very popular, and is now an accepted important method of retarding age-induced muscle atrophy (“sarcopenia”). As a result, muscle dysfunction can be better preserved, and incidence of falls and hence risk of fractures reduced.

Short term resistance exercise programs using the nHANCE™ Knee Extension, is proven very effective to improve muscle function and increase muscle size in old men and women (Onambélé et al., 2008). Similarly, research in progress infer that stroke patients, showing compromised lower limb muscle function and atrophy, can benefit from nHANCE™ Leg Press training.

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ONE OF THE GREAT MEDICAL INNOVATIONS…

In year 2005 important discoveries and innovations at the Karolinska Institute from the 19th to the 21st century were listed. A short list of ”Highlights from the Medical Map” included ”Space Gym” invented by researchers Drs. Per Tesch and Hans Berg, together with other high-lighted discoveries such as; ”Language of chemistry” (JJ Berzelius 1820s; atomic weights of chemical elements and selected names and symbols), Insulin and heparin (E Jorpes 1920s), Myoglobin (H Theorell, Nobel laureate 1955), Pacemaker (Å Senning; C Crafoord inserted the first human pacemaker in 1958), Noradrenaline (U v Euler, Nobel laureate 1970), The gamma knife (L Leksell 1968), Prostaglandins (S Bergström, B Samuelsson; Nobel laureates 1982).

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